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Simone Joyaux, ACFRE, Joyaux Associates | January 4 2013
What Do You Talk about at Your Board Meetings?
Board meetings require intentional design and good facilitation so that the board can do the work of governance without getting sidetracked by management stuff and other matters. -
Ruth McCambridge | December 20 2007
Oppositional Boards a Good Thing? (Jun 07)
There is a feral cat in my yard. I feed her every morning now, but it is weird how this happens.
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The Case against Rainy-Day Framing of Budgets and Taxes
Few things are more loathed by the public than taxes, and our cultural models encourage us to view government as something to be resisted and our tax system as a ...
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The tippy top of the donor pyramid in fundraising – just how relevant is it now? Simone Joyaux shares her thoughts.
Just a warning…this is a weird column. No overall theme. Just a collection of tidbits and miscellaneous thoughts that I wanted to share with you.
Simone Joyaux offers notions of leadership around concepts of learning, change, stewardship, and organizational glue. Is leadership an art? A developed skill? Joyaux opines.
Before you set up an advisory group or a community council, it’s important to be very clear about what you’re trying to accomplish and whether a new group will help in that effort.
“Donor fatigue” is an excuse that some use to explain away poor fundraising. Do good fundraising and relationship building and your donors will love you and stick around.WRITE FOR NPQ
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